THE
BALI DRAMA
NO FEAST IS COMPLETE
IN BALI
without music and elaborate dramatic and dance performances;
no one would dream of getting married, or holding a
cremation, or even of celebrating a child's birthday,
without engaging troupes of dancers and actors to entertain
the guests and the neighbours. During the anniversary
feasts of the temple there are always dances that last
throughout the night and may even continue for days,
with a different type of show every afternoon and night.
At the great feastof Taman Badung, the death temple
of Den Pasar, there were shows every night for an entire
month.
The
Balinese love night-life and it was rare when after.
ten at night someone did not come to us with news of
a show somewhere, or when we did not hear distant music
in the village. We became such enthusiastic tbeatre-goers
that we had, sometimes, to make a point of staying home
to catch up with lost sleep. Even the tired peasant
who Works all day in the fields does not mind staying
up at night to watch a show, and the little children
who invariably make up the front rows of the audience
remain there until dawn for the end, occasionally huddled
together taking naps, but wide awake for the exciting
episodes of the play.
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